# VERVE POETRY Poetry organiation running VERVE Poetry Festival, year-round projects that champion new voices, and writing community. VERVE is a home for poetry that is live, lived, and alive. Page: Feed: --- ## [you’ve got poetry, you’ve got music, you’ve got song, you’ve got the lyric, you’ve got all of this relationality, you’ve got birdsong from which language might have sprung...](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/youve-got-poetry-youve-got-music) _2026-08-16 · VERVE Poetry_ and you think — well, what about these birds that we have — they’ve vanished. What did they sound like? Tishani Doshi on Egrets, While War. Bloodaxe Books. ## [My hypervigilant curiosity is now not a nuisance, but a vital part of my writing life.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/poetry-gives-purpose-and-meaning) _2026-08-11 · VERVE Poetry_ "It provides a channel, an outlet for all the frantic over-observation and over-thinking that is with me every waking (and sleeping) moment." Bernadette Lynch, winner of July's Poem of the Month with Nuns. ## [ACCESS for tonights VERVE Poetry Writing Hour Monday 3rd August: 5:30pm.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/access-for-tonights-verve-poetry) _2026-08-03 · VERVE Poetry_ A monthly writing hour with poems, prompts, and time to write in community with Suzannah Furnass. ## [Poems on TOO MUCH.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/poems-on-too-much) _2026-07-30 · VERVE Poetry_ The winning poem and shortlisted selection for JULY 2026 Poem of the Month Competition. ## [Moving at the Speed of Community #2](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/moving-at-the-speed-of-community-2ef) _2026-07-21 · VERVE Poetry_ An update from our founder and director Stuart Bartholomew on our 10th Anniversary Festival taking place 24th-28th February 2027. ## [Poems are choreographed as much as composed.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/poems-are-choreographed-as-much-as) _2026-07-10 · VERVE Poetry_ "Writing poetry helps me slow to a pace where I can see more clearly." An interview with Katie Columbus, the poet behind June's Poem of the Month. ## [ACCESS for tonights Writing Hour for Poets Monday 6th July: 5:30pm.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/access-for-tonights-writing-hour) _2026-07-06 · VERVE Poetry_ A monthly writing hour with poems, prompts, and time to write in community with Suzannah Evans-Furnass. ## [Writing Hour for Poets Monday 6th July.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/writing-hour-for-poets-monday-6th) _2026-07-02 · VERVE Poetry_ A monthly writing hour with poems, prompts, and time to write in community with Suzannah Evans-Furnace. ## [Poems on SPIRIT.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/vision-and-flame-interpreter-as-embodying) _2026-06-30 · VERVE Poetry_ The winning poem and shortlisted selection for JUNE 2026 Poem of the Month Competition. ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BJ9TXiPdZXT8) _2026-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Poetry lets me look at one thing closely and slowly for a long time.](https://vervepoetry.substack.com/p/poetry-lets-me-look-at-one-thing) _2026-06-10 · VERVE Poetry_ "In the rest of my life it is loud and busy and chaotic and I flit from one thing to another in a deeply inefficient way." An interview with Nia Broomhall, the poet behind May's Poem of the Month.